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All posts tagged "Reviews"
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504ReviewsRennie Harris’ ‘Rome and Jewels’: Keeping hallowed works vital
Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Providence, RI.November 18, 2023. Kathleen Pletcher, the Executive Artistic Director of FirstWorks RI, introduced the work about to take...
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336ReviewsThe sun is still shining on Tony Award-winning musical ‘Annie’
Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA.December 5, 2023. The iconic Tony Award-winning musical Annie has made its way to Atlanta’s Fox Theatre. The National...
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374ReviewsPaul Taylor Dance Company: The complexity of being human
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY.November 4, 2023. The Paul Taylor Dance Company’s 2023 and 11th season at the...
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1.1KReviewsBook review: Dana Tai Soon Burgess’ ‘Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly’
Book: Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly: A MemoirAuthor: Dana Tai Soon Burgess, University of New Mexico Press, September 2022. Good...
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1.7KReviewsLucinda Childs’ ‘Dance’: Making the simple complex
New York City Center, New York, NY.October 20, 2023. New York City Center’s Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival opened...
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503ReviewsCarrying the classics forward: Ballet Rhode Island’s ‘Death and the Maiden’
Woodman Family and Community Arts Center, Providence, RI.October 15, 2023. Baroque notes rang through the theater, and the curtain rose on dancers...
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475ReviewsA broad and vibrant palate of dance: Boston Ballet’s ‘Fall Experience’
CitiBank Opera House, Boston, MA.October 8, 2023. As a critic, my late summer comes with investigating and anticipating my favorite companies’ imminent...
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427ReviewsTapestries of movement, history and human connection: Rachel Linsky’s ‘Inspired by Weinberg’ at the Vilna Shul
The Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture, Boston, MA.September 10, 2023. A former mentor once said, critiquing a review of mine,...
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298Reviewsmignolo dance in an evening of imaginative worlds
Arts On Site, New York, NY.October 1, 2023. mignolo dance presented a diverse evening of dance works at Arts On Site on...
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643ReviewsInnovate Dance Film Showcase: Showing off Hollywood North’s dance talent
Vancouver Playhouse, Vancouver, Canada.September 8, 2023. Dance Informa attended a dance industry event in Vancouver, Canada that showed exactly how the city...
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466ReviewsMovement and more making meaning: Continuum Dance Project’s ‘Not Eye, Us’
Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA.June 22, 2023.(Viewed via Vimeo at a later date.) Part of me has always questioned the...
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409ReviewsThe generosity of live art: The 2023 Newport Dance Festival from Newport Contemporary Ballet
The Lawn at the Great Friends Meeting House, Newport, RI.July 22, 2023. One could say that dancing for an audience is an...
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344ReviewsThe music in the movement: Mark Morris Dance Group’s Joyce debut
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.August 12, 2023. Dance happens in time, in space — kinetic action happening in a space, in...
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426ReviewsBook review: Mark Mann’s ‘Movement at the Still Point’ is a tapestry of dance on human canvas
Book: Movement at the Still Point: An Ode to DanceAuthor: Mark Mann, Rizzoli International Publications, March 2023. “At the still point of...
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335ReviewsBAAND Together Dance Festival brings together NYC’s finest
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY.July 29, 2023. For the past three years, the reigning giants of the ballet...
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310ReviewsWoman in Motion presents strong female voices in Season 2
Ailey Citigroup Theater, New York, NY.July 8, 2023. Woman in Motion (WIM), an all-female project-based dance company based in NYC, held its...
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351ReviewsSydnie Mosley’s choreopoem: ‘PURPLE: A Ritual in Nine Spells’
Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln Center, New York, NY.June 23, 2023. For most of June, Sydnie Mosley, artistic director of SLMDances, shared...
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403ReviewsLa MaMa Moves! Dance Festival showing so much life
La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre, The Downstairs Theatre and The Club, New York, NY.April 6-30, 2023. La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, curated by...
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429ReviewsMusic, movement and sound: Jackie O’Riley and Rebecca McGowan’s ‘From the Floor’
Released in 2019.Streaming now. The little gems of art that we can find by chance: it can be sort of amazing. From...
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359ReviewsThe fire of dance in us: Newport Contemporary Ballet’s ‘Catch Fire!’
Waterfire Arts Center, Providence, RI.May 20, 2023. Chi, ki, prana, baraka, mana: terms from different cultures and spiritual traditions that reference the...
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373ReviewsGallim Dance’s 15th anniversary: Nothing done without intention
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY.June 4, 2023. Gallim Dance celebrated 15 years this spring at the Joyce Theater in NYC. Gallim...
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318ReviewsBallet Hispánico shares stories of Latinx culture at New York City Center season
New York City Center, New York, NY.June 2, 2023. Ballet Hispánico completed a three-day run at New York City Center in early...
